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Posted by The PocketTV Team on April 29, 2008, 6:37 am
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any comment on that from MSFT or a MVP?
this is a serious firmware bug, and it's surprising to still find it in new
devices... platform tests certainely don't catch it.
>A firmware bug in the Treo-500v causes all applications to receive a
>spurious private message 0x00008017 after a phone call is performed from
>the device.
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> This message is normally in a range reserved for private communication
> between the threads of an application and should never be sent to an
> application by the system, the shell, or any other software on the device.
> This firmware bug can cause random application crashes and other issues.
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> This issue exists in various other windows mobile devices and was reported
> to microsoft two years ago (first spotted on the Motorola Q), but
> apparently microsoft still does not include testing for this firmware bug
> in their platform validation tests, and we see it popping regularly on new
> devices.
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> More information can be found here:
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http://www.modaco.com/content/Windows-Mobile-Development-Visual-C/242539/Windows-Mobile-Spurious-private-messages-firmware-bug/
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